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We consider systems of "pinned balls," i.e., balls that have fixed positions and pseudo-velocities. Pseudo-velocities change according to the same rules as those for velocities of totally elastic collisions between moving balls. The times…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-07-25 Jayadev S. Athreya , Krzysztof Burdzy , Mauricio Duarte

This article puts forth a process applicable to central force scatterings. Under certain assumptions, we show that in attractive force fields a high speed particle with a small mass speeding through space, statistically loses energy by…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-03-06 Ramis Movassagh

Although special relativity limits the actual velocity of a particle to $c$, the velocity of light, the observed velocity need not be the same as the actual velocity as the observer is only aware of the position of a particle at the time in…

General Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Austen Berlet , Dennis G. C. McKeon , Farrukh Chishtie , Martin Houde

We analyze the fate of dynamical systems that consist of two kind of processes. The first type is supposed to perform a certain function by processing information at a required high accuracy, which is, however, limited to less than 100…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Maximilian Voit , Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns

Each observable ballistic phenomenon of a spin-stabilized rifle bullet can be explained in terms of the acceleration of gravity and the total aerodynamic force acting on that bullet. In addition to the coning motion itself, Coning Theory…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-04-06 James A. Boatright

Time-dependent correlation functions of (unstable) particles undergoing biased or unbiased diffusion, coagulation and annihilation are calculated. This is achieved by similarity transformations between different stochastic models and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Malte Henkel , Enzo Orlandini , Gunter M. Schütz

We investigate the long time behavior of a passive particle evolving in a one-dimensional diffusive random environment, with diffusion constant $D$. We consider two cases: (a) The particle is pulled forward by a small external constant…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-16 François Huveneers

Newtonian, undamped motion in single-well potentials belong to a class of well-studied conservative systems. Here, we investigate and compare long-time properties of fully deterministic motions in single-well potentials with analogous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-27 Michal Mandrysz , Bartlomiej Dybiec

This paper is concerned with the blow-up property of solutions to an initial boundary value problem for a reaction diffusion equation with special diffusion processes. It is shown, under certain conditions on the initial data, that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Yuzhu Han

We consider the TASEP on Z with two blocks of particles having different jump rates. We study the large time behavior of particles' positions. It depends both on the jump rates and the region we focus on, and we determine the complete…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-03-03 Alexei Borodin , Patrik L. Ferrari , Tomohiro Sasamoto

We study the adversarial binary hypothesis testing problem in the sequential setting. Associated with each hypothesis is a closed, convex set of distributions. Given the hypothesis, each observation is generated according to a distribution…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Eeshan Modak , Mayank Bakshi , Bikash Kumar Dey , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

In the random acceleration process, a point particle is accelerated according to $\ddot{x}=\eta(t)$, where the right hand side represents Gaussian white noise with zero mean. We begin with the case of a particle with initial position $x_0$…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-25 Theodore W. Burkhardt

The speed limits on entanglement are defined as the maximal rate at which entanglement can be generated or degraded in a physical process. We derive the speed limits on entanglement, using the relative entropy of entanglement and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Vivek Pandey , Swapnil Bhowmick , Brij Mohan , Sohail , Ujjwal Sen

We consider an interacting particle system where equal-sized populations of two types of particles move by random walk steps on a graph, the two types may have different speeds, and meetings of opposite-type particles result in…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-07 John Haslegrave , Peter Keevash

To gain insights into momentum transfer from the supporting environment, we consider the simple problem of a bullet, fired from below, into a wooden beam resting on two supports. The resulting upward velocity of the beam strongly depends on…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Xiaoyu Zheng , Tianyi Guo , Peter Palffy-Muhoray

To resolve the quantum measurement problem, we propose an objective collapse theory in which both the wavefunction and the process of collapse are regarded as ontologically objective. The theory, which we call the entangling-speed-threshold…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-09 Sang Jae Yun

We investigate a class of reaction processes in which particles move ballistically and react upon colliding. We show that correlations between velocities of colliding particles play a crucial role in the long time behavior. In the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Trizac , P. L. Krapivsky

When particles on a line collide, they may annihilate - both are destroyed. Computing exact annihilation probabilities has been difficult because collisions reduce the particle count, while determinantal methods require a fixed count…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Piotr Śniady

Turbulent relative dispersion is studied theoretically with a focus on the evolution of probability distribution of the relative separation of two passive particles. A finite separation speed and a finite correlation of relative velocity,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Takeshi Ogasawara , Sadayoshi Toh

The propagation of light in a scattering medium is described as the motion of a special kind of a Brownian particle on which the fluctuating forces act only perpendicular to its velocity. This enforces strictly and dynamically the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Anantha Ramakrishna , N. Kumar
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